Teaching resources

Free lesson plans, classroom activities and educational games for Early Years to Key Stage 5 pupils.

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  • Key Stage 2,
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  • 8–11,
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  • Sociology,
  • Citizenship

World Toilet Day activities

Learn more about the importance of a decent toilet – the basic human right that almost 1.7 billion people are still denied.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • 15–16,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
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Climate change teaching resources

Educational resources to help explore the causes and effects of climate change, and what we can do to manage its impact.

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  • Key Stage 1,
  • Key Stage 2,
  • 5–7,
  • 8–11,
  • Handwashing,
  • Hygiene,
  • Water,
  • Science,
  • PSHE

Global Handwashing Day: Germ craft activity

Learn what germs do, how they spread, and how we can get rid of them with good hand hygiene.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • 15–16,
  • Water,
  • Human rights,
  • Health,
  • Hygiene,
  • Women and girls,
  • Geography,
  • Sociology,
  • Citizenship

World Water Day activities

22 March is World Water Day: an opportunity to learn about the importance of clean water, and explore issues surrounding access to it.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • 15–16,
  • Water,
  • Hygiene,
  • English,
  • Geography,
  • PSHE,
  • Citizenship

Wordsearch

Encourage word recognition and recap vocabulary relevant to WaterAid.

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  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • Key Stage 2,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • 15–16,
  • Periods,
  • Hygiene,
  • Toilets,
  • Women and girls,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • PSHE,
  • Citizenship,
  • Science

Menstrual Hygiene Day activities

Use Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28 May to encourage open conversations and learning around periods, gender issues, and the importance of decent toilets.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • Key Stage 5,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • 15–16,
  • 16+,
  • Human rights,
  • Women and girls,
  • Toilets,
  • Asia,
  • Water,
  • Hygiene,
  • Health,
  • Maths,
  • Geography,
  • Citizenship,
  • Politics,
  • PSHE

No water, no lessons, no choice: Educational resources

Classroom resources to engage your pupils with issues surrounding WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) and girls’ access to education.

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  • Key Stage 1,
  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Early Years,
  • Under 5,
  • 5–7,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • Hygiene,
  • Handwashing,
  • Water,
  • Health,
  • Science,
  • PSHE

Soap experiment

Use this simple interactive experiment to learn how soap works to keep us safe.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • 8–11,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS2: Causes of climate change

Introduce KS2 learners to the differences between weather and climate, learn about the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect, and explore sources of greenhouse...

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • 8–11,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS2: Climate change impacts

Introduce KS2 learners to the impacts of climate change, what they mean for our planet, and how these might change over time.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • 8–11,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS2: Climate change

Introduce KS2 learners to the global impacts of climate change, and the concept of shared responsibility.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • 8–11,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS2: Managing climate change

Introduce KS2 learners to different methods for managing the impacts of climate change.

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  • Key Stage 3,
  • 12–14,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS3: Managing climate change

Introduce KS3 learners to different methods for managing the impacts of climate change.

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  • Key Stage 3,
  • 12–14,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS3: Causes of climate change

Introduce KS2 learners to the differences between weather and climate, learn about the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect, and explore sources of greenhouse...

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  • Key Stage 3,
  • 12–14,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS3: Climate change impacts

Introduce KS2 learners to the impacts of climate change, what they mean for our planet, and how they might change over time.

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  • Key Stage 3,
  • 12–14,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS3: Managing water and climate change

Introduce KS3 learners to the impacts of climate change on people’s access to water, and explore different ways of managing these impacts.

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  • Key Stage 4,
  • 15–16,
  • Climate change,
  • Natural resources,
  • Environment,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography,
  • Maths

KS4: Evidence of climate change

Introduce KS4 learners to scientific methods for measuring climate change, and asks students to analyse different sources of information.

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  • Key Stage 4,
  • 15–16,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS4: Natural causes of climate change

Introduce KS4 learners to natural causes of climate change, and explore the greenhouse effect.

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  • Key Stage 4,
  • 15–16,
  • Climate change,
  • Natural resources,
  • Environment,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS4: Human causes of climate change

Introduce KS4 learners to anthropogenic causes of climate change and explore how human activity is exacerbating the greenhouse effect.

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  • Key Stage 4,
  • 15–16,
  • Climate change,
  • Natural resources,
  • Environment,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS4: Climate change impacts

Introduce KS4 learners to the impacts of climate change, and explore what they will mean for society and the environment.

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  • Key Stage 4,
  • 15–16,
  • Climate change,
  • Natural resources,
  • Environment,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS4: Managing climate change

Introduce KS4 learners to different methods for managing the impacts of climate change.

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  • Key Stage 4,
  • 15–16,
  • Climate change,
  • Environment,
  • Natural resources,
  • Water,
  • Africa,
  • Asia,
  • Science,
  • Citizenship,
  • Geography

KS4: Managing water and climate change

Introduce KS4 learners to the impacts of climate change on people’s access to water, and explore different ways of managing these impacts.

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  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 2,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • Periods,
  • Women and girls,
  • Hygiene,
  • Toilets,
  • Health,
  • Africa

P.E.riod Excuses by Jacqueline Wilson

Discover our short story, written by Jacqueline Wilson, and teaching resources pack, for a lesson or discussion with your pupils about menstruation, and the...

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  • Early Years,
  • Key Stage 1,
  • Key Stage 2,
  • Under 5,
  • 5–7,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • Asia,
  • Art,
  • Geography

Colouring sheets

Free colouring sheets, each featuring the national animal and flower of a country we work in.

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Sign up to the schools newsletter

Sign up to our e-newsletter for everything you need to bring WaterAid into your classroom. Our regular emails include new learning resources and lesson plans...

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Book a free Speaker

Bring our work to life with a free interactive talk or assembly, tailored to your group's specific needs.

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Try our Alexa skill

Try our new Alexa skill WaterAid Voices, a ground-breaking educational experience for Amazon Alexa devices.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • 15–16,
  • 16+,
  • Water,
  • Toilets,
  • Hygiene,
  • Health,
  • Periods,
  • PSHE,
  • Science,
  • Geography,
  • Citizenship

Book a free educational workshop

Inspire group thinking, discussion and learning about key topics including the water cycle, hygiene, climate change, periods – and much more!

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  • Key Stage 4,
  • Geography,
  • Sociology,
  • History,
  • Citizenship,
  • PSHE

KS4 resources

Your KS4 pupils are the future of tomorrow. Teach and inspire them about human rights with our free teaching resources.

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  • Key Stage 3,
  • Citizenship,
  • Science,
  • Geography,
  • History

KS3 resources

Browse our teaching resources for KS3 pupils, including curriculum-linked lesson plans and activities across a range of subjects.

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  • Key Stage 2,
  • PSHE,
  • Geography,
  • Science,
  • Food technology,
  • History

KS2 resources

Browse our teaching resources for KS2 pupils, including curriculum-linked lesson plans and activities across a range of subjects. Our KS2 resources will help...

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  • Key Stage 1,
  • Geography,
  • PSHE,
  • Food technology

KS1 resources

Browse our teaching resources for KS1 pupils, including curriculum-linked lesson plans and activities across a range of subjects.

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  • Key Stage 1,
  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Early Years,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • Under 5,
  • 5–7,
  • 8–11,
  • 12–14,
  • 15–16,
  • Water,
  • Handwashing,
  • Toilets,
  • Hygiene

Films and songs

How do you make water and sanitation issues engaging for students? Teach them using songs and videos!

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  • Key Stage 1,
  • Key Stage 2,
  • Key Stage 3,
  • Key Stage 4,
  • Water,
  • Natural resources,
  • Environment,
  • Science,
  • Geography

Educational resources from your local water company

Explore opportunities from your local water company, including online resources, school talks, and site visits.

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